[DanHoward]

Accuracy seems to have never been a priority except for specialist sharpshooters. Firearms have been getting more and more accurate over the centuries but, if you look at various battles over those same centuries, the number of shots fired per enemy casualty progressively gets worse, not better. It seems that the main priority has always been to send as much lead at the enemy as possible and forget about accuracy. A TL4-TL5 musketman would be trained to load and fire as quickly as possible, not to shoot accurately. The only real instruction in accuracy they receive is being told to "aim low".